On the night of June 12, 1977, eight-year-old Lori Lee Farmer attended her first Girl Scout summer camp at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Oklahoma. The next morning, June 13, a counselor found the bodies of Lori and her two tentmates, nine-year-old Michelle Guse and ten-year-old Doris Denise Milner, on a trail about 150 yards from their tent. The girls had been sexually assaulted, bludgeoned, and strangled; a flashlight and other evidence were recovered at the scene.

Suspicion focused on Gene Leroy Hart, a local man with a prior escape and convictions for kidnapping and sexual assault. Hart was arrested in April 1978 and tried for the three murders in March 1979; a jury acquitted him and he was returned to prison for his earlier sentences. He died of a heart attack on June 4, 1979.

In 2019 DNA testing on crime-scene evidence could not produce a full profile but was reported to strongly suggest Hart’s involvement while excluding other potential suspects. No one has been convicted of the murders. Did anyone who attended Camp Scott that summer or knew the girls come forward with memories or leads that could still matter?